Nevadans for the Common Good Credited with Improving Future

Its mission: the training of leaders for participation in public life. And, while this army may not be fighting a holy war, it has been turning heads with victories that promise a better future for the valley.

Nevada Leaders Big Players in Immigration Congressional Hearing

Representing Nevadans for the Common Good, a coalition of local faith-based groups, [Bishop Joseph] Pepe questioned whether some people are being detained simply to meet the daily bed quota for immigrants in detention. “Immigration procedures and laws are applied unevenly and often are not filling prosecutorial priorities,” he said.

Nevada Governor Signs Anti Sex Trafficking Bill into Law

Any pimps out there? Keep your hands off young girls and boys or you might be sent to prison for a long time. Gov. Brian Sandoval on Thursday signed Assembly Bill 67 to create the new crime of sex trafficking.

Las Vegas Outsiders Learn to Play Inside Game

David and his wife, Barbara Paulsen, are part of a group of about 40 volunteers flying and driving to the state capital, where they will lobby the Legislature to toughen the state’s sex-trafficking laws. They want to make it easier to prosecute violent pimps and impose stiffer penalties while helping victims of the Las Vegas sex trade get treatment...